14-letter words containing t, e, l, i
- at one's peril — If you say that someone does something at their peril, you are warning them that they will probably suffer as a result of doing it.
- athletic coach — a person qualified to train athletes
- athletic heart — nonpathological enlargement of the heart resulting from intensive aerobic exercise.
- atlantic liner — a large passenger ship that regularly crosses the Atlantic Ocean
- atlantic ocean — the world's second largest ocean, bounded in the north by the Arctic, in the south by the Antarctic, in the west by North and South America, and in the east by Europe and Africa. Greatest depth: 9220 m (30 246 ft). Area: about 81 585 000 sq km (31 500 000 sq miles)
- atrial flutter — irregular heart rhythm
- attainableness — The state or quality of being attainable.
- attemptability — the capability of being attempted or condition of being attemptable
- attention line — a line of text after the address on a piece of correspondence, directing it to a particular person or department.
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
- aussie battler — an Australian working-class person
- authority file — a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.
- autopilot code — (jargon, humour) Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
- autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
- autotetraploid — an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement
- auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
- auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
- availabilities — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
- avalokitesvara — a male Bodhisattva, widely revered and identified with various persons and gods.
- axial skeleton — the bones that together comprise the skull and the vertebral column
- azimuth circle — a device for measuring azimuths, consisting of a graduated ring equipped with a sighting vane on each side, which fits concentrically over a compass.
- bacteriologist — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
- bactrian camel — a two-humped camel, Camelus bactrianus, used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia
- balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
- ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
- ballet slipper — a heelless cloth or leather slipper worn by ballet dancers.
- baltimore chop — a batted ball that takes a high bounce upon hitting the ground on or immediately in front of home plate, often enabling the batter to reach first base safely.
- baptismal name — Christian name (def 1).
- barium sulfate — an odorless, tasteless, white powder, BaSO4, insoluble in water: it is used as a paint pigment, as a filler for paper, textiles , etc., and as an opaque substance that is ingested to aid in making diagnostic X-rays of the stomach and intestine
- barometrically — By means of a barometer.
- barrel shifter — (hardware) A hardware device that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single operation. It is implemented like a multiplexor, each output can be connected to any input depending on the shift distance.
- bastard ridley — ridley (def 1).
- bastard-ridley — ridley (def 1).
- batement light — a compartment of a window with tracery, the bottom of which is formed by the arched head of a compartment or compartments below.
- batting helmet — a rigid plastic cap with a sidepiece extending down over the ear, worn for protection while batting
- battle cruiser — A battle cruiser is a large fast warship that is lighter than a battleship and moves more easily.
- battle fatigue — Battle fatigue is a mental condition of anxiety and depression caused by the stress of fighting in a war.
- battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
- battle station — the place or position that one is assigned to for battle or in an emergency.
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- be in the loop — If someone is in the loop, they are part of a group of people who make decisions about important things, or they know about these decisions. If they are out of the loop, they do not make or know about important decisions.
- bead lightning — lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
- begging letter — A begging letter is a letter from a person or organization in which they ask you to send some money for a particular purpose.
- belaying cleat — a cleat used for belaying
- belletristical — relating to the fine arts
- belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
- below the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- below-the-line — denoting the entries printed below the horizontal line on a company's profit-and-loss account that show how any profit is to be distributed
- belvoir castle — a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816